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Mollusks

Mollusks are a large and diverse phyla of invertebrate animals, featuring over 110,000 species. Their phylum name, Mollusca, means "thin-shelled," though many species lack shells entirely. Molluscs include clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, squid, octopuses, nudibranchs, sea hares.

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Mollusks

Mollusks are a large and diverse phyla of invertebrate animals, featuring over 110,000 species. Their phylum name, Mollusca, means "thin-shelled," though many species lack shells entirely. Molluscs include clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails, squid, octopuses, nudibranchs, sea hares.

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MOLLUSKS

Mollusks (British spelling: molluscs) are a large and diverse phyla of invertebrate animals, featuring over 110,000 species. Their phylum name, Mollusca, means "thin-shelled," though many species lack shells entirely. Mollusks include clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, snails,squid, octopuses, slugs, nudibranchs, sea hares, and several classes of deepsea wormlike creatures. Some mollusks snails and slugs have even adapted to life on land. Mollusca is one of the "Big Nine" animal phyla, alongside Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata

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